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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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AUTHOR:
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
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QUOTATION:
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It is better, then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it—keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for, as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech at Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 1858.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 2, p. 498 (1953). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Labor |
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